'Come to Elland to see knuckledusters, guns and nunchucks' - the parallel world of gangland Calderdale - Halifax Courier

'Come to Elland to see knuckledusters, guns and nunchucks' - the parallel world of gangland Calderdale - Halifax Courier: "Elland Mad Dogs and the Lee Mount Loonies – just two of Calderdale's street gangs revealed in a new book about the murky world of violent Britain
STARTLING claims about the extent of gang warfare and gun crime in Calderdale have been made in a new book.
Steve Hackman, author of Young Guns: Inside the Violent World of Britain's Street Gangs, says he has identified eight different street gangs operating in and around Halifax.
It stems from his experiences in Armley Jail, Leeds, where he experienced intense rivalaries among inmates not only from different parts of Yorkshire – 'to prove whose area was the 'hardest' – but also fierce territorial competition from prisoners within towns themselves"